New Products: Ion & Mango and Lime

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So I’ve recently got my hair dyed a red/burgundy color and I decided to share with you guys the new shampoo and products I’ve switched over to.  With my hair type, it has always loved moisture, but even more so that I have now chemically treated my virgin tresses. So same routine, different products!

  Ion Color Defense Shampoo- It give great results especially for locking in a long lasting hair color.  Inexpensive, it can be found at Sally’s Beauty Supply.  If you use alot of other products in your hair it will complete wash it out as well as add a shine to your wet hair.

Jamaican Mango and Lime Locking Gel- Don’t be fooled by the rastafarian, cause I surely was when my hairdresser decided to apply this to my hair.  this Gel works as a hair moisturizer that also holds styles. It works great for a twist-out. Trust me! Section and two-strand your wet hair, sit under the dryer, then viola!  It’s always great for retwisting of locs as well!

Does Reggie Exemplify Black Love?

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Essence Magazine has selected Reggie Bush to grace their cover of the love & relationships issue on february.  Of course sex sells, and from looking at this chocolate piece of work, who wouldnt want to pass him up on the magazine stand.  But just recently there has been alot of backlash about Reggie Bush being the perfect face of the cover of a “Black Love” issue.  With his girlfiend, Kim Kardasian being non-black it makes me wonder how he can be an example of “Black Love”?   It was his choice to not date a black woman, so it should not be fair out of all of the many successful black men for Reggie Bush to take the spotlight.  I feel that Bush doesn’t publicly show his love for his own race and black women at that so why should he be on the cover.  He looks good, but that’s about it.

What do You Think?

Afro Chics Read of the Month: Thank God I’m Natural

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All I asked for was one book for Christmas.  “Thank God I’m Natural” by Chris-Tia E. Donaldson.

A couple of people have expressed to me their interest in my natural hair and their aspirations for caring and maintaing natural hair.  This is the perfect book to start off if you want to transition into Naturality.  You don’t have to be the black power, afro rocking sistah to learn how to care for the hair that has been naturally rooted from your scalp. 

In this book you will read many natural trials and tribulations as well as hands-on tips and pictures to get you started on your own haircare regimens.  It’s a must read for any black woman who has suffered hair loss and breakage caused by relaxers or also has grown tired and broke from spending thousands of dollars and their entire saturday frying their kinky tresses to the scalp.  It’s also packed with advice from Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, and even Erykah Badu. 

I would personally recommend this book to anyone who dares to love, conquer and take care of their own hair!

Cupid Shoot Me With Your Rifle Love

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With Valentine’s Day a little over a month away there are many anxious and angry single men and women out there who are thinking of ways to avoid the torture of the heart sensationalized holiday. But why is that?  Why can’t there be  a holiday for single men and women to unite and celebrate the fabulousity of living a single life?  The flowers and the candy, and if your lucky the romantic evening only last 24 hours.  Then the smiles are smacked right off the couples faces and you are quickly remembered why he or she got on your nerves in the first place.  It’s funny to me, and I hate to be a hypocrite, but for once I’d like to step out of the the single-black-girl shoes and enjoy the 24 hours of love…  Dont get me wrong I’m not rushing to the online dating sites or scanning my phonebook looking for a valentine, just having an open heart this time cause maybe I might get to celebrate this holiday!

“Negro” is a really a choice for Census

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When filling out applications and the equal opportunity section comes up, do you call yourself Black, African-American, or…..Negro?  You would think that this name would be buried and put to rest.  A name that was given to African-Americans and what the whites refered to use to describe our rich skin tone since the civil rights era.

The new Census Bureau has implimented a new option for you to check of in the race/ethnicity portion: NEGRO.  The word is now included under one answer along with African-American, Colored, and Black.  Many people are upset by this and I don’t blame them.  Who wants to have such a derogatory name put into a category that has to be marked because of their race.  It would be an uproar if in the white answer they put; European, Irish, and honkey. Exactly.

Return of the Ankh in 2010

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‘New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh” release date is Feb. 23rd, 2010. I swear, I think 2010 is going to be a good year.

Avatar metaphoric to the African Diaspora

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My english minor is about to kick in because after watching the movie “Avatar”.

 I started to think about the Indigenous creatures that they “sky people” were calling them were of the African Diaspora.  Yes they looked Indian with the tribal paint, and yes they also looked African with the dreaded locks and braids, but when they spoke I heard an islander accent within their language. As for the creatures, they were very tall and strong and their intelligence against the human race was phenomenal.  Using mother nature to create different connections with the ancestory also reminded me of some type of spiritual reflection.

As for the plot, I felt as if it were the “White Man” trying to take the Indigenous people’s land just like the Europeans came into Africa, and America and ruined the rich history that we must continue to sufer from now.  The only thing I did like was that the “sky people” did want to come to an understanding, become one, and trusted on the land of Avatar.  What if that was replaced with the African History?

Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda

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There has been a big uproar about the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009” recently that they are trying to prosecute Ugandans for practicing Homesexuality. Life imprisonment and death are said to be the consequences for being gay.  The likelyhood of this bill being passed after the 2011 Elections is at a high stake.

According to the Huffington Post nearly 95% of the population of Uganda are religious leaving me to believe that homosexuality is not of acceptance.   After reading many articles on the gay rights in Uganda my heart becomes weak to know that in worst cases homosexuality is not accepted worldwide.  In America, people are ridiculed, beaten, and stunned from their life everyday but to have a bill passed that will prosecute people because of their sexual orientation is very unmoral.

“One example of continuing discrimination came from Uganda, where President Yoweri Museveni order­ed the Criminal Investigation Department to locate and arrest homosexuals in that nation.”

As an heterosexual/straight woman I do not know if I could relate to anyone that is gay, lesbian, or transgender, but I know that when it comes to Human Rights, Homosexuality, should be a right that is given to you and you should not have to fight for something about yourself that you have no control over.

Say a Prayer for Uganda.